CGT: the cost of cost confusion
When you sell or otherwise dispose of a chargeable asset, Capital Gains Tax (‘CGT’)...
Green Card, red light
While we enjoy connections to a number of US firms through BKL’s membership of...
McEnroe & Newman: debt-free sale of company
We wonder what Michelle McEnroe and Miranda Newman thought when the decision was handed...
Settlement opportunity for remuneration trusts
HMRC have announced a new ‘settlement opportunity’ for tax avoidance arrangements involving certain ‘Remuneration...
Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings: Homes for Ukraine update
The Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) regime came into force on 1 April...
Who to blame when tax schemes go wrong?
When a tax avoidance scheme doesn’t work, who can you blame? The designer? The...
HMRC and MSCs
It is reported in the Financial Times and elsewhere that HMRC have recently issued...
Rich Mrs Sunak: Poor Mr Sunak?
You don’t get to choose your parents; nor where you are born. And, since...
More a whisper than a (Spring) statement
We hope you weren’t holding your breath for a Big Announcement in Mr Sunak’s...
Spring Statement 2022 in detail
Exactly two years since the first UK lockdown was announced, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak...
Clarity, Forecasts, Opinions: how a fractional CFO can help you grow
Outsourcing the finance function of a growing business has many clear benefits. If your...
What’s a spouse? Trust deed terminology
Generally, where spouses are afforded special treatment (whether favourable or unfavourable) by tax law,...